EN 13001-1 EUROPEANSTANDARD NORMEEUROPEENNE EUROPAISCHENORM April 2015 ICS53.020.20 Supersedes EN13001-1:2004+A1:2009 EnglishVersion Cranes- Generaldesign-Part1:Generalprinciplesand requirements Appareils de levagea charge suspendue-Conception Krane - Konstruktion allgemein - Teil 1: Allgemeine generale - Partie 1: Principes generaux et prescriptions Prinzipien und Anforderungen ThisEuropeanStandardwasapprovedbyCENon16February2015. CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration.Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standardsmay beobtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre orto any CENmember. This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German).A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibilityofa CENmember into its ownlanguage and notified to theCEN-CENELEC Management Centrehas the same status as the official versions. CENmembers are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium,Bulgaria,Croatia, Cyprus,Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland,FormerYugoslavRepublicofMacedonia,France,Gemany,Greece,HungaryIceland,Ireland,ItalyLatvia,Lithuania Luxmbourg,Malta,Netherlands,Norway,Poland,Portugal,Romania,Slovakia,Sovenia,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,TurkeyandUnited Kingdom. cen EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR STANDARDIZATION COMITEEUROPEENDENORMALISATION EUROPAISCHESKOMITEEFURNORMUNG CEN-CENELECManagementCentre:AvenueMarnix17,B-1000Brussels 2015CEN Ref.No.EN13001-1:2015E worldwidefor CEN national Members. EN13001-1:2015 (E) Contents Page Foreword. Introduction 1 Scope. 2 Normativereferences 3 Terms,definitions,symbolsandabbreviations 3.1 Termsand definitions 3.2 Symbols and abbreviations. 4 Safetyrequirementsand/ormeasures 4.1 General. 4.2 Proof calculation 4.2.1 Generalprinciples 4.2.2 Models of cranes and loads.. .11 4.2.3 Simulationofloadactions 4.2.4 Load combinationsand loadeffects .... 4.2.5 Limit states.... 4.2.6 Proofofcompetence 4.2.7 Methodsfortheproof of competence 4.3 Classification..... 4.3.1 General...... .15 4.3.2 Total numbers of working cycles..... 4.3.3 Averagelinearorangulardisplacements. .17 4.3.4 Frequencies of loads. .19 4.3.5 Positioning of loads. .20 4.4 Stresshistories 4.4.1 General..... 4.4.2 Frequencies of stress cycles.... 4.4.3 Transformation ofthe identified stress cycles into cycles with constant mean stress or constantstressratio.. ...23 4.4.4 Classification of stress histories Annex A (informative) Selection of a suitable set of crane standards for a given application .... ......28 Annex B (informative)Discreet and continuous distributions... ....30 AnnexZA(informative)RelationshipbetweenthisEuropean Standard and theEssential RequirementsofEUDirective2006/42/EC. .33 Bibliography.. .34 2 EN 13001-1:2015 (E) Foreword This document(EN13001-1:2015)has been preparedbyTechnical Committee CEN/TC147"Cranes Safety", the secretariat of which is held by BSl. This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text orbyendorsement,atthelatestbyOctober2015,and conflictingnational standards shallbewithdrawnat the latest by October 2015. Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN [and/or CENELEC] shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. ThisdocumentsupersedesEN13001-1:2004+A1:2009 This document has been prepared under a mandate given to CEN by the European Commission and the European Free Trade Association, and supports essential requirements of EU Directive(s). ForrelationshipwithEUDirective(s),seeinformativeAnnexZA,which isan integralpartofthisdocument The major changes in this revision are in 4.2.7.2, 4.3.3 and 4.4.4. Annex B has been added. This European Standard is one part of EN 13001.The par